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it's a shame Paul McCartney and Elton John don't call it a day as well, but then I've always thought Elton John was overrated and a lot Macca's output is not me cup of tea either

just read right through this thread and the first post is the one I agree with most, Tom Morgan, brilliant songwriter, apparently simple songs that hit the spot, for me anyway. Overrated? tough one, I suppose it's artists you just don't understand why they're so popular, Queen, Bowie when he stopped collabarating with Mick Ronson are two that spring to mind

really? I didn't know that, where did you hear that, there's no hint of it where he asses all the Ramones albums. https://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/johnny-ramone-grades/ Like @ClassicVibes says they got someone in to play the solos, when they did Chasing the Night on the Whistle test they just missed out the solo 😂.

thanks for that, I've checked out other songs from that gig, phenomenal sound

the way I understood it was Johnny was the first to jump ship after Spector made him play one chord over and over again, but according to most of the band (not Dee Dee, who was prone to exaggeration, or poor memory because of the drugs) they all played on the basic tracks except Baby I love you, then left it to Spector and Joey to finish it off, how much of their playing is left on the finished album is anybody's guess

have to say Baby I love You is a long way from my favourites Ramones song, not typical at all, but perversely (a bit like Chuck Berry's My Ding a Ling) their biggest hit. I agree with you about It's Alive, my favourite ever live album and what got me into the Ramones as well. Edit, the whole concert it was recorded at is available on youtube, but maybe you already knew that

what a load of cobblers, about as funny and annoying as a kick in the bollocks

ignore him he's just trolling

I do wonder why you even bothered looking at this thread if you don't like the Ramones, I certainly don't bother looking at threads that mention bands or players that I don't like in the title. Perhap your number of 'watts' is telling us something 😁

that's the first time I've come across anybody that thinks Trace are over estimating the output of their amps, if that's what you're doing. My Trace amps, a 150 watt and a 200 watt, haven't got a fan at all, just grill type heat sink sticking out of the back

play along to a click track, with say four clicks before you start playing I can't think of another way unless the drummer lays down his track first, then just slide one of the tracks until they line up

they showed a lot of people, me included, you didn't have to be a great musician to write songs and be in a band, a breath of fresh air after the prog rock years, nobody stripped Rock and Roll back to it's basics like they did

to be fair, it's nearer 8 when when they do a key change 😀 I read somewhere he had a really high action, probably something to do with the way he hammered away at the strings all down strokes (something I can't do), so maybe he could get it lower with a G&L?

that's my experience as well, Tesco and ASDA had a one way system operating but there's no way people are going to queue up the aisles waiting for every body to make their selections, Lidl was the worst, no one way system and very little space to queue for the checkouts

yes but unless 'overtaking' is banned, or shopping from both sides of the aisle which it isn't you're nowhere near 6 feet apart. 3 feet max. It's the only way I can see me catching the virus

we haven't even got social distancing now, it's impossible in Supermarket aisles, I really can't see pubs being kept shut till the end of the year, large sporting and music venues maybe, especially standing ones

just Fender Precision isn't it? Fender do a signature model, at a price.

I see 450 deaths today, I know it's a Monday but still a low total, a 'leading expert' is casting doubt on whether the lockdown was really necessary, the world is full of people who think they know better. I know I know it's in the Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8235979/UKs-coronavirus-crisis-peaked-lockdown-Expert-argues-draconian-measures-unnecessary.html Anyway, the deaths and infections look like they have levelled off and the NHS has plenty of spare capacity (how long before someone is criticising the decision to open up the Nightingale Hospital?) so a gentle easing of restrictions is on the cards on May 7th, and if that goes ok they'll be more to follow

Just confirmed, for me, that Elton John and Macca should retire gracefully, McCartney in particular was awful IMO, Tom Jones was a bit dodgy as well, Jagger and the Rolling Stones were the highlight for me, enjoyed Billie Joe Armstrong and Stevie Wonder has still got it, although I'm not a fan.

interesting EQ setting from Mark King, hope he hasn't got the preshapes on as well 😀

hopefully pubs will be opening June July time with restricted numbers which means we should be ok 🙂, but I can't see any of the summer festivals happening, but if they decide to let sporting events happen (Football) they can't really stop big gigs, festivals happening, as with everything depends how far the deaths and new infections fall so who knows?

actually I've just another test using a microphone (play the click track through the speaker and record it, when I used the wireless unit this happened, first is the click track, second one is the mic connect directly and the third one is with the wireless unit in the loop

cheers guys for your input, I've dug down a bit, ASIO drivers will not work with Audacity without jumping through a lot of hoops, I've done various latency checks and adjusted Audacity accordingly (it was about 50 milliseconds out), strangely there was no noticeable difference between wireless and cable, must have just been the way I was playing 😂. I'm not looking for perfection it's only a demo of a new song to give the rest of the band something to go on

Can't remember, I just downloaded one off the internet, in fact I thought that was the name of the driver, it says MME in the audacity window. But as I've said I've only ever noticed latency when using the Boss wireless system, it seems fine otherwise

wish I would get one of these, I could ask him how he got my webcam working, I've been trying for hours without any success.